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...entered Clarence House, Queen Mary was waiting, perfectly prepared, to curtsy before her. The Queen talked with her grandmother for half an hour, put in a call to Sandringham to her mother and sister, and went over the arrangements for the King's funeral with the Duke of Norfolk (Earl Marshal of England)* and the Earl of Clarendon (Lord Chamberlain). That night, while all Britain listened to Churchill's eloquent eulogy of her father, she rested...
...last day, the King went shooting among the oak trees and bramble thickets of the royal estate at Sandringham in Norfolk. Bareheaded and cheerful in the wintry sunshine, the King shot 50 hares, brought down a pigeon with a fine 100-ft. wing shot. That afternoon, pulling off his boots, George VI said contentedly to his shooting companions: "It's been a very good day's sport, gentlemen. I will expect you here at 9 o'clock on Thursday." Footman Daniel Long, who took a cup of cocoa to the King at 11 p.m. and found...
Founded in the heyday of British imperial expansion by a British innkeeper from Calthorpe in Norfolk, Shepheard's was a sprawling, 350-room structure built in 1891, a curious mixture of Moorish and Western in design, in the heart of Cairo's European district. Newsmen and businessmen, actors, archdukes, sultans, admirals, subalterns and field marshals thronged its corridors, its dining rooms, bar." Kitchener stopped in at Shepheard's after the Battle of Omdurman. Explorer Stanley dropped in after finding Dr. Livingstone. John Pierpont Morgan the Elder ate his last meal in Shepheard's. To readers...
...When the Norfolk is commissioned next August, she will be manned by 500 men and 40 officers, will slice through the water at a 30-knot clip. Her job, when she joins the fleet: to lead the Navy's hunter-killer antisubmarine teams. Sub warfare is getting so complicated that the Navy needs a double-barreled killer, a vessel big enough to act as a command ship for the air-sea teams, and tough enough to help them at the final kill...
...originally laid down as a light cruiser herself (therefore christened with the name of a city, like all U.S. cruisers), the Norfolk is almost as big as the British Dido class (5,770 tons) cruisers, far outclasses the next largest destroyer; the U.S. 3,675-ton Mitscher scheduled for launching in about a month...